Appearing on two cult vinyl compilations, a prized CD restrospective
and a major label boxed set

Their first single changing hands for astronomical sums more than
thirty
years after its release - and a follow-up released in 2014

The true story can now be told

funboy
five

behind the
legend

Released on the Cool-Cat-Daddy-O label in January
1980, the single 'Life After Death'/'Compulsive Eater' became the
Funboy Five's only vinyl release during their 18-month existence,
although the group also recorded a four-song radio session for the John
Peel Show and its members appeared on records and cassette releases in
other projects.

In the decade following its
release, 'Life After Death'/'Compulsive Eater', complete with its
"awful" handwritten stapled sleeve, available in blue, green, pink or
yellow, became increasingly prized by collectors.

During the
1990s, the group posthumously gained a wider audience when 'Life After
Death' appeared on two cult vinyl compilations: Killed By Death (#007)
and Teenage Treats (Vol 10).

It seemed only
right for the group to produce their own CD, Very Hush! Hush!,
with 40 minutes of music including both sides of the single, an early
demo version of 'Life After Death' and an alternative take of
'Compulsive Eater'.

In
2009 came the remarkable discovery that even mega-hugeoid
everything-owning Universal were fans of the Funboy Five when 'Life
After Death' was included - under strict terms dictated by the band -
on a 4-CD boxed set issued by that label to
celebrate the work and influence of the radio DJ, John Peel.

To
mark the approximately thirty-fourth anniversary of their debut single,
the Funboy Five recorded new material and released a new vinyl
single, 'Save The World', in a limited edition of 500, during
August 2014. They are promising at least a single a century from now
on. Possibly even more...